# 号

| 号 | U+53F7, &#21495; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F7 |
| ← 叶 [U+53F6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 司 → [U+53F8] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 号 |
| Simplified | 号 |
| Traditional | 號 |

### Han character

号 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口一女尸 (RMVS), composition ⿱口丂)

#### Derived characters

* 𬽱, 呺, 𢪶, 𤝐, 枵, 𭴒, 𭷐, 𦚊, 𭽑, 𪾥, 𥍣, 𧦢, 𨱭, 𠸮, 𮧃, 𩖸, 𩨴, 𰢬, 𰫟
* 𠳯, 𨚙, 𣪆, 𣭖, 𫪕, 𠵗, 𭈹, 號, 䪽, 飸, 鴞(鸮), 𡀒, 𧇼, 㞻, 𫇯, 𰇱, 𱆩, 𰖦
* 𤩩, 𨫴, 𡩸, 𢣉, 𰢖, 𰊽

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 174, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3256
* Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 7
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 570, character 1
* Unihan data for U+53F7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 饕 | *l̥ʰaːw |
| 號 | *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws |
| 号 | *ɦlaːws |
| 枵 | *hraw |
| 呺 | *hraw |
| 鴞 | *ɦraw |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 丂 (“exhaled air; a tiger's cry”). See 號 for more details.

### Definitions

* For pronunciation and definitions of 号 – see 號 (“name; alias; art name; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 號).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03612-001

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 号 |
| Kyūjitai | 號 |

### Kanji

(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 號)

#### Readings

* Go-on: ごう (gō, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kun: さけぶ (sakebu, 号ぶ)、よびな (yobina, 号)

#### Compounds

* 哀号(あいごう) (aigō)
* 青信号(あおしんごう) (aoshingō)
* 赤信号(あかしんごう) (akashingō)
* 暗号(あんごう) (angō)
* 加号(かごう) (kagō)
* 雅号(がごう) (gagō)
* 記号(きごう) (kigō)
* 黄信号(きしんごう) (kishingō)
* 減号(げんごう) (gengō)
* 口号(こうごう) (kōgō)
* 国号(こくごう) (kokugō)
* 号外(ごうがい) (gōgai)
* 号泣(ごうきゅう) (gōkyū)
* 号哭(ごうこく) (gōkoku)
* 号室(ごうしつ) (gōshitsu)
* 号数(ごうすう) (gōsū)
* 号令(ごうれい) (gōrei)
* 称号(しょうごう) (shōgō)
* 商号(しょうごう) (shōgō)
* 信号(しんごう) (shingō)
* 除号(じょごう) (jogō)
* 乗号(じょうごう) (jōgō)
* 通号(つうごう) (tsūgō)
* 正号(せいごう) (seigō)
* 等号(とうごう) (tōgō)
* 怒号(どごう) (dogō)
* 年号(ねんごう) (nengō)
* 番号(ばんごう) (bangō)
* 廟号(びょうごう) (byōgō)
* 符号(ふごう) (fugō)
* 負号(ふごう) (fugō)
* 法号(ほうごう) (hōgō)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 号
* ごう Grade: 3
* goon
* Alternative spelling
* 號 (kyūjitai)
From Middle Chinese 号 (MC hawH)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ごー [góꜜò] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [ɡo̞ː]

### Noun

号(ごう) • (gō)
* number
* art name

### Suffix

号(ごう) • (-gō)
* ordinal marker, often with prefix 第 (used like -st, -nd, -rd, -th in English)
    （第(だい)）六(ろく)号(ごう)
       (dai)-roku gō
       (The) 6th

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

号 (eumhun 이름 호 (ireum ho))
* Alternative form of 號 (“hanja form of 호 (“name; number”)”)

### References

* Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 51.